Hi Kyuho,
Welcome to your personalized Grit Lab Report!
We will go week by week, reviewing everything you have told us through Poll Everywhere.
We hope this will help you reflect on what you have learned and experienced during Grit Lab.
Important note!
Sometimes, you may not have been able to respond to all polls.
If the data for one of the polls is missing, the automatic report will display NA, or ““.
Okay, let’s get started!
The first half of Grit Lab delves deep intp the passion facet of Grit.
We like to call it Choose Easy, because we think gritty people pursue what they enjoy.
Putting it graphically, gritty people tend to pursue the intersection of these four circles.
The first time we met, you told us where you were on the grit rubric.
Regarding passion you picked Stage 3: I’m actively figuring out what my interests are by trying one or more of them out in some way .
Regarding perseverance you picked .
As you know, grit grows, so don’t worry if you are not yet where you’d like to be in your grit journey.
Hopefully, this class will help you become grittier each day.
In week 2, we looked at your interests.
Interest is an emotion, and it is the opposite of boredom.
Your interests are the activities or subjects that spontaneously grab your attention.
Trying things out and seeing how you feel is the best way to refine your interests.
In week 3, we studied values, your beliefs about what is important.
You said your top three values were benevolence, self-direction, and hedonism.
You wrote a “This I Believe” essay, and here’s where you located it on Schwartz’s value taxonomy.
When we talked about strengths in week 4, you said your personality strength was openness.
You said your top three talents were social, musical, and artistic / spatial.
We then talked about goal hierarchies.
You said you had a general intuition (but nothing specific yet) about your top-level goal.
We discussed self-concordance, or how much a goal aligns to your deeply held values and beliefs.
A goal you said you will be pursuing for the next six months is to get a job!!!!! .
Here is how self-concordant that goal was:
Don’t worry if your self-concordance for that particular goal is low.
It might mean that you need to reframe that goal in a way that makes it more relevant to your deep self, or change it!
Remember that self-concordance is goal specific, so other goals might be more self-concordant.
We then transitioned to the second part of Grit Lab:
Work Smart
In week 6, we looked at goal setting and planning.
You WOOPed!
For your Wish, what you wanted to accomplish, you said Take my midterms .
For your Outcome, what would happen if your wish came true, you said Feel accomplished .
For you Obstacle, what it is within you that stands in your way, you said Not knowing the content .
For your Plan, you created this when-then plan to achieve your goal: When I get out of class and get home, then I will start my work .
Whether you changed your WOOP or stuck to that one, here’s where it landed between being a total fail, and going exactly according to plan.
And here’s how much you learned
These goals are hard, and despite our best efforts, our plans can fail.
The important thing is that you learn something along the way!
In week 7, we talked about deliberate practice.
You shared you’ve done daily practice in music .
We learned that deliberate practice requires a challenging, hyperspecific goal, maximum concentration, instant feedback, and is often done alone.
In week 8, we discussed feedback.
Even though feedback can be hard to take, it is often the key to improve. So if you want to improve, seek it actively!
You said you felt motivated when receiving critical feedback, and motivated when receiving positive feedback.
We then turned to learning about stress.
In week 9, you reported feeling a lot of stress in your life right now, the primary source of it being health .
We also talked about adversity and failure.
Although related, adversity and failure are different:
Adversity happens to us, whereas failure is something for which we are generally more responsible.
However, how we interpret stress and failure matters…
Interestingly, research has found that people who believe that stress can facilitate learning and growth experience enhanced performance, well-being, and health.
And failure—not achieving a particular goal—can be interpreted as “I’m learning!” and lead you to look for the lesson in that experience.
We closed the Work Smart section of the class by talking about habits.
Throughout the semester, you practice habit building using your Build-A-Habit Guide book.
You describe the habit you chose as Something else .
Whether you were successful in habit building or not, this is how much you learned.
Finally, what good is grit if we do not dream for others?
So, we transitioned to Paying it Forward.
In week 10, we looked at mentors: role models that take an active role in your growth.
Hopefully, your mentor was authoritative, being both supportive and demanding.
Here’s how you described them:
You also wrote a gratitude letter to Parent .
In one word, you said it made you feel happy .
One way of paying it forward is having a prosocial, beyond-the-self purpose. Here’s how you responded to items assessing that.
… and so quickly we arrived at the end of the semester.
Here’s how your mood varied over these weeks.
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Do you notice any patterns? Is there anything that correlates with your mood?
Here you can scroll through all the quotes you wrote to summarize each class.
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| Success is a journey, carve your own path |
| Interest is an emotion, and that not wanting to further your interests is a form of procrastination |
| You learn more from a role model than you can from a classroom |
| Don't quit on a bad day |
| Plans articulate an intended future action |
| Flow is enjoyable, deliberate practice is not |
| Taking feedback well is important |
| Not all stress must be debilitating |
| Willpower is overrated |
| Social skills are increasingly important in the workplace |
In the final class, we looked back to everything we’ve learned together and to how our passion and perseverance evolved during this class.
Here are the comments from your Grit Lab Teammates:
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| Frederique Wollaert |
| With this paragraph, I am expressing my gratitude to you. During Grit Lab, I feel like I got to know you better every week. You always include everyone in the conversation and you are very honest. I enjoyed learning more about your passion for music and getting weekly updates about your journey in your major. You are so kind and authentic. During the weekly discussions, you always contribute with thoughtful insights. I value the connection we've formed and appreciate the unique contributions you bring to Grit Lab 5.0.
Even tough we didn’t get to see your final presentation live, I loved your final project about creative production. I think your final project worked out really well - I love the blending of the audio and vision, it creates such a special environment. It is definitely a great first step for your senior thesis, I can’t wait to see what your new ideas bring, especially with all we learnt from Grit Lab. I can’t wait to see where the future brings you. |
| Hillary Lim |
| I am glad to have met you through Grit Lab. Your easy-going nature played a crucial role in fostering a sense of camaraderie among our team during the initial weeks of the semester. Engaging in conversations with you about our common academic interests (Psychology and CIS) was also enjoyable. Moreover, your genuine and authentic responses during our group discussions instilled in me the confidence to open up and share more openly. Thank you for our valuable conversations.
Seeing your doodles in class impressed me already, but seeing your discovery project final products made me more amazed. The passion you have for this creative industry is inspirational and I hope you get to further explore this interest through the IPD program. Hoping to see more artistic and musical pieces from you soon! |
| Francesco Salamone |
| It has been a pleasure to work with Kyuho for the entire semester. I always appreciated the diversity he brought into every conversation and team discussions. Specifically, being the most creative of the team, I enjoyed hearing about how he fosters his artistic skills through music and design. As someone who is majoring in this field and constantly pursuing his passion, I learnt about grit, especially how to handle being flexible when things do not work out. Whether he shared thoughts on concerts or his updates on his habit of playing more often, I would see his pursuits as inspiring. The discovery project was just another way to test himself. The idea of working to blend audio and visuals in his creative process was something unique to me. I enjoyed watching and listening to his final product bringing together his interests in music and specific songs with unique and appealing graphics and colors. Excited to see where life takes you! |
We hope you have emerged from Grit Lab a little grittier than you started.
Do you want to see how your grit rubric changed?
Drumroll please…
Don’t worry if the rubric doesn’t yet reflect growth. It is only a coarse measure that cannot replace your own self-reflection.
In any case, grit is not built in a day…
…remember that progress is never smooth…
…so stay passionate and persevering in the lifelong quest of choosing easy, working smart, and paying it forward.
With grit and gratitude,
Angela and the Grit Lab team.